Shloka 75
Aṣṭāvakra’s Visit to Kubera: Hospitality, Temptation, and the Ethics of Restraint (अष्टावक्र-वैश्रवणोपाख्यानम्)
आभासुरा गन्धपा धूमपाश्च वाचा विरुद्धाश्ष मनोविरुद्धा: । शुद्धाश्न निर्माणरताश्च देवा: स्पर्शाशना दर्शपा आज्यपाक्ष
ābhāsurā gandhapā dhūmapāś ca vācā-viruddhāś ca mano-viruddhāḥ | śuddhāś ca nirmāṇa-ratāś ca devāḥ sparśāśanā darśanapā ājyapāś ca ||
वायुरुवाच— आभासुराः गन्धपाश्च धूमपाश्च तथा परे। वाचा विरुद्धाश्चैव मनोविरुद्धास्तथैव च। शुद्धा निर्माणरता देवाः स्पर्शाशनाः परे। दर्शपाः केचिदाज्यपाः—एते देवगणाः स्मृताः।
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the vast diversity of divine modes of existence—some beyond speech and mind—and points to a cosmological vision where purity and creative function define higher orders of beings.
Vāyu is describing extraordinary classes of devas and their subtle ways of sustenance and operation, as part of a broader enumeration/exposition of divine beings and cosmic principles in the Anuśāsana Parva.